Debt Rattle April 23 2026
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Edward Hopper Railroad sunset 1929 • Trump Extends Ceasefire with Iran Pending Internal Regime Discussions (CTH) • Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire and Fo
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 23 2026]“Peace Won’t Fix This: The Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Has Already Done Its Damage GPC
Example of many articles out there. Has it? What about the predictions of those skeletons aboard ship? What about the prediction we’ve lost, we should surrender? The prediction Iran would be unharmed? What about the prediction US gas prices would be $10/gal? What about the certainty we’d nuke Tehran last Tuesday and land a million men?
So when everything predicted is wrong, is it time to stop having so much certainty in your latest predictions?
Like Covid, I’m not even trying to have predictions of my own; I’m just saying YOUR predictions are wrong. We can start with that.
“All that is incomprehensible for Epstein Syndicate propagandists,” Strategic Culture
“Everyone is stupid but me”. We know this because I use poopy-pants words as half of every sentence, and with every StrategicCulture author laid end-to-end, can’t come to a viable conclusion.
Hey StrategicCulture: DID YOU NOTICE THE REAL EPSTEIN CLASS IS IN UK PARLIAMENT RIGHT NOW, as Starmer falls? He’s given 20 defenses of Epstein’s ACTUAL best friend, who ACTUALLY wanted to be top diplomat of highest state secrets with ACTUAL no security clearance at all because he ACTUALLY talked to Epstein daily about ACTUAL illegal matters and ACTUALLY allowed “The Epstein Class” to insider trade for Billions by ACTUALLY leaking critical material AFTER Epstein had long since been serving time.
…That’s not happening, tho. ‘Cause Orange Man. This is where the visible facts ACTUALLY point and ACTUALLY live, the address they all arrive at at this point. Not with “Baboon of Barbaria” which is so abstract I can’t even be sure who, if anyone, he’s addressing. So he has no facts. …Or he would just SAY them.
He would say “On the 21st of August Joe Normal witnessed a murder on State and Bank”…etc. He does not because he has no facts, only emotion, and poopy-pants words.
“Iran will not (italics mine) blink.”
That is fine and a perfection viable option. However, you need to have “POWER” to enforce your will on the world. Iran does not have that, or wildly less power every day. They have zero income. Every time they send out a bass boat, it gets blown up. They do not, and can not, make infinity more, because we would bomb any factory they tried to build them in. They have hit nothing in the United States so far as we know. So we are unharmed. Yet we are told we should surrender.
This is one of those points where it’s not a matter of “Signaling” how tough you are. Iranians are super tough! It’s that your million man army can’t swim out in their speedos to stop tankers. I’ve often wondered why boats don’t just murder all Somali Pirates with .50 cal strapped the decks. Now we know: Lloyd’s forbids it, it’s bad for profits. But perhaps we will find out shortly, as any tanker can decimate anything Iran is throwing at them right now.
“That is absolutely lawful in terms of right to self-defense – responding to a unilateral, illegal armed blitzkrieg” Yes, you’re right. So those ships should shoot back with RPGs and stingers.
“We are watching, in real time, the global energy market screeching to a halt.”
Why would we care? Idgaf about “The Global Economy”, you mean the one that just dismantled and sold off the whole United States, savaging every human in our borders nearly to the level of the Soviet Collapse, with the equal deaths of million(s). Tell me why I should help the economy that did that. ‘Cause, you, a Globalist, an Empireist, a European, want me to?
Every time Iran closes the straits IT MAKES US RICHER, you IDIOTS. Please keep doing it. Here’s $10 Million dollars, PLEEEEEEAAAAAASEE keep the straits closed for at least 10 years. We have no Allies in world history like Iran is being now. Falling on their sword daily to restore the U.S. to our former glory, and let us buy even MOAR dual-axle pickup trucks. I’m sorry reality is inconvenient and offense for everyone right now. Adjust.
“Barbaria’s play comes down to reverting to the pre-war status quo: Iran under a maximum pressure economic siege”
You have BADLY misread the room. The entire POINT is to DESTROY the ‘pre-war status quo’ forever, in ways it can never be restored. That’s why he exists and why America voted for him, was to “f—k s—t up”. Every globalist, and every status quo, NOT to help them. Holy Duh on a stick, man. Did you NOTICE Globalists don’t like him much? It has been known.
“A move to break Barbaria’s blockade is all but inevitable – as in one seizing of an Iranian ship too many.”
And then what? They will swim out to our navy or walk long ‘way round to Saudi Arabia on a camel? I’m not TRYING to be mean here, but this is not pejorative poopy-words, these are military REALITIES. You can WANT to blow up whoever: the Irish WANTED to blow up England for 400 years – however they lacked the CAPACITY to do so, and it never happened.
“U.S. military has no right to create war.” — Reid
This is entirely true and I’ve said so, however it’s ENTIRELY BESIDE THE POINT. Your point seems to be because England SHOULDN’T have crushed Ireland and killed everyone, so therefore they DIDN’T and Ireland won. No they did not. They lost until England got bored with them.
“The US Navy simply doesn’t have enough ships on station to intercept and detain every vessel moving in and out of Iranian ports.”
That’s a good play. But you think the Navy can’t come up with a response if they wish to? We’ll go throw chains in their props and let them drift. It’s a matter of what we WISH to do, for political reasons. Everyone wishes us to surrender, for purely political reasons. Then pay Iran infinity money to make infinity nukes ’cause that’s a great world we all want to live in.
“In Trump’s war for Israel against Iran”
You mean the one we fought for Israel where Israel was bombed flat and the U.S. got rich? How does that work exactly? I seem to detect a slightly different motive here.
Hmmmm…we pulled a Bank Robbery, ONE of us got shot and went to jail and ONE of us got away with the money….yet your conclusion is the shot, jailed one was the one who planned it that way, and the rich, free one was the patsy. Interesting theory. Go on…
“Americans Don’t Want To Fight A Proxy War For Israel”
Yes, except as above, we don’t seem to be fighting it for Israel. Israel has been bombed to pieces because of it, courtesy of Iran. Couldn’t have bombed them better if I’d planned it myself.
TBOC: Poopy-pants words. Trump WAS NOT IN OFFICE for Ukraine. He gave old s—t that didn’t work and would have cost money to dispose of to Ukraine. When he got BACK in office, the money was almost instantly shut down. This very loosey-goosey thinking is how we got here. Iran is a different story of course, but if there are no top-level facts for one, why would I believe you for the other? You don’t know who the President was, like a year ago? C’mon.
“The modern state of Israel, due to the terror and horror it has wrought, Has No Right To Exist; Free Palestine” –TBOC
Trump has bombed Israel flatter than any President in world history. This is what you wanted. Why can’t you just say “Thank you sir, may I have another”? I don’t care WHY they were bombed. All of that is noise: end state is, “Israel was bombed the s—t out of for Gaza, and Trump was the man who arranged matters on the ground for that to happen.” EVEN AFTER HE BOMBS ISRAEL you can’t see it. There are SMOKING CRATERS even right now, and Israel is not bombing us back, they’re saying thank you. This is the greatest victory in American history to accomplish this magic trick. Just tip your hat to the majesty of it. Who else could bomb Tel Aviv to powder with their ally Iran and have their president call and say thank you?
What is wrong with people? Can they not tell “Bombing” from “Not-Bombing”? Israel was bombed to s—t. “I Did That” as the Biden sticker goes.
“John Mearsheimer: U.S. Expands Iran War & Divorces Europe”
FINALLY somebody notices. Can we get this in the Overton Window so it can be discussed now?
“Things are getting Worse: IRAN rejected Trump’s Truce and Brutally Killed two Israeli Mossad Agents”
How is that worse? Iran is making America rich, destroying Europe and killed Mossad agents. Did you WANT the Mossad agents to live or something? What’s with everyone? They want the enemy’s agents to live now and the empire to continue? This could hardly be better.
“Pepe Escobar: “Total Failure”: Trump’s Blockade Just Backfired Disastrously”
Yes, I guess Trump’s plan was to make us poor, but it’s accidentally making us rich instead. Then also Trump SAID Chinese oil could go through as a pro-quo to China. So they keep adding those ships like chimpanzees as if this isn’t expected.
“So we bombed them into the Stone age, took almost no damage, and WE are supposed to surrender?
Your idea that we took almost no damage could not be further from the truth.” DBSYou’re looking at too narrow a scope: what damage did America take IN AMERICA? Or among our thousands of interests and assets worldwide? Again, we used 10% of our forces in the war so far. So let’s say they damaged ALL that, PLUS some bases and radars we’re not counting. So? Do you see the problem? IF ALL America was ONLY the assets in the Middle East, then yeah, we got pounded. But we’re barely there. 99% of America is in Cleveland and Kansas City, NOT at a 300 man base in the Iraqi desert.
This concerted determination that the U.S. is tiny and has been shattered is baffling to me. They haven’t even sunk a ship, although perhaps they will someday.
This is all activated by everyone’s EMOTION. Like we lost 2,000 men, THEY lost 2,000 men, okay. But suddenly and miraculously we can’t math anymore when the Union Army has 750,000 men, and Sitting Bull has 500 men. Those things matter. I may or may not have emotion (I do, obviously) but what I’m reacting to is more MISSING THIS MATH WILL KILL SOMEONE. Like Iranians. Or us.
You need an ACCURATE sense of what’s going on, and relative sizes and damages. Everyone is DETERMINED that the U.S. has been completely destroyed, decimated, ceased to exist, because THEY WANT THAT SO BAD. While Iran has lost two night watchmen and a camel. NO. I assure you that is not the case! Iran’s situation is VERY BAD. Getting them to ride out on horses and face the evil enemy is a great way for Cromwell to kill the last remaining Irish resistance, or for Sitting Bull to decisively lose the war and his lands.
If it were me: lie, sue for peace, and fight them on the flip side, same as I’d say for Ukraine. But like Ukraine, everyone’s advice is “Russia is a paper tiger! ‘Tis but a scratch! Throw ANOTHER 2 million men at them!” How is that going for Ukraine to believe that?
And so how will it go for IRAN to believe that?
We are riding roughshod on air power over them and can do so until the sun burns out. They have hit nothing in our production lines. Their ONLY hope is that we surrender…for no military reason whatsoever.
So as you say, You’ve made up your mind: the Army 10x their size, almost entirely intact, their nation unharmed, is going to lose and should surrender. The nation flattened to powder with no Navy, no production capacity, no money and no bridges – seemingly with Zero allies, which is amazing and vital – is WINNING and with NO CAPACITY to damage the U.S. homeland, has already won and should continue, Stay strong! because when they haven’t harmed us at all, well it’s just a matter of time before we fold.
Huh?
“Victor Davis Hanson on IRAN: Delaying won’t save them. The pressure is crushing and the window is slamming shut.”
Yes, but “Broke” only matters if you can BUY something. And also their fields will be permanently damaged…making the U.S. richer and them “permanently” weak viz a viz Saudi.
“Justice is definitely coming. As promised.”
Sure a lot of promises – and there’s yet another one, issuance of hot air.
“50,000 extremist clerics and IRGC members are holding 90 million people as hostages ..”
Just like America, as I say daily.
“President Trump has forcefully and publicly been pushing back against the aggressive posture of Israel.”
Maybe. This is just words but a good sign. Perhaps he’s testing how much Israel has been weakened.
“Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal.”
Pakistan blinked. Pakistan is TACO. (makes as much sense as anything)
Speaking of, I was thinking, under Topcat’s proposal, we can never, ever, ever, ever, ever stop bombing. Because if we ever stop or even lighten up, take a break for a few minutes, that’s surrendering. That’s cowardice. So I expect Don Eric Trump the XXIVth, in 2094, will finally kill the last Iranian who was hiding out on the moons of Titan. And then, only then, will he have vindicated his father for “not being a coward” and Topcat can finally say, “Well done my good and faithful soldier, Donald (Eric) Trump.” Yes? This all makes sense to everyone? This plan is GOOD for Iran, GOOD for peace, love, and brotherhood on earth.
“• Trump Extends Iran Ceasefire and Forces Tehran to Make the Next Move (Manney)
They did. They got a couple of guys and a couple of speedboats. Hope it works out for them.
One problem tho: Iran attacked NON-assets of the NON-United States. So they are winning by attacking all nations worldwide. Hmmm. It’s a bold plan to attack EVERYONE. Especially innocent sea captains who deliver “Baby formula” to “Nuns”. (or oil to a starving world) We’ll see how it goes.“So Iran is increasingly isolated diplomatically. It’s struggling economically with its currency and foreign currency reserves”
This is critical. Where are their allies? And WHY NOT? The only Iranian allies worldwide are at Fox News and in this room. Why? We know more than Russia and China do? We have to deal with them and will tell Saudi Arabia how it gonna be? Indonesia, Pakistan, not a finger lifted. Why?
According to everyone, the U.S. lost handily, so obviously they aren’t afraid of us. But they refuse to support Iran in any way. Discuss?
“• IRGC Leader Takes Control of Iran’s Military As US Tensions Rise (Fox)
Ah. So once again we discover there is no Clerical government, there is no civilian government, there are no people, there is only the IRGC. The nation is run for them alone. Yes, as above, exactly as our CIA has treated the whole nation since 1963: their personal playground and slush fund. And no, we don’t like it either.
The IRGC is representative of nothing. They have no allegiance to the people. This might be only words – it’s not impossible they could be patriots – but 10+ years of actions, using water resources etc show they are AGAINST the Iranian people. As our CIA is against Americans as well.
Difference here is, it’s finally out in the open. It depended on illusion and deniability. But it was always true that Iran didn’t have an army, because they got 2 used revolvers while the IRGC got hypersonics and nukes. So there was no co-equal, and IRGC were never like, “Special Forces” within the army. They are a Praetorian Guard that kills the leader (in a copter crash) anytime they like, meaning there IS no real government. Again, like us? You decide. But we’re not going to say WE are like this, but Iran is the cleanest beacon of moral light on the hill.
“• President Trump Didn’t Just Win. He Revived the Warrior Poet (David Manney)
Guh. Yuck.
P.S. Trump is the #Opposite of clarity. There is perhaps no leader ever elevated that is less clear than he.
“• Trump Spooked Over Iran War Crimes – Larry Klayman (USAW)
R U High? He’s 80. Also I bet war crimes never crossed his mind once, ever.
“It looks like he’s getting down on his knees and begging for peace”
There’s your TACO. If Trump doesn’t GENOCIDE Iran, nuke every Persian worldwide today, he’s a coward begging for peace.
“If the President is going to get himself out of this”Out of what? Out of making the U.S. filthy rich in oil and food?
“• Trump’s “Sock Puppet” (Philip Marey)
The Tea leaves show they are trying to roll up the Fed into Treasury, but that’s very long and touchy.
Warsh also said the problem with the Fed is CONGRESS. It’s about unlimited spending. Everyone was so busy counting coup with Pocahontas they missed this. He clearly said the problem with the Fed and inflation is Congress printing money.“Democrats started calling for investigations, and left-wing groups went all in, too. Democracy Forward”
You mean all those Democratic groups who are the major funding for the KKK and Nazi biker gangs? Those guys?
“storming sovereign U.S. territory and taking 52 hostages for 444 days. In the 47 years since, the regime has directly committed or financed countless acts of terrorism against the U.S. and our interests.”
Blah blah blah, don’t care. The U.S. was in their business (or really BP) since 1910. And worldwide. Cry me a river when the colonies do it back to you. MY problem is that Iran IS a colony when we think/thought it was an independent.
This is the same as eg India, which the British Empire lost in 1947, only to find they are MORE COLONIZED THAN EVER, 80 years later in 2026. Huh. Funny, dat. They changed methods, that’s all. And Iran was the newest, hottest, most secret best method Tavistock could find, same as the OSS used on our CIA. No! The CIA doesn’t run the country, how dare you sir? Congress does! Meanwhile they are tapping every phone, all congressmen, floating every Epstein or in that era, Playboy Mansion, involved in every election, and self-funding on the side with Air America, then Pappa Bush’s Sinaloas, then Fstan and human trafficking, so far outside Congressional power that the U.S. budget can’t be seen from there, and the CIA/MI6 Derp State Globalists are ONE cartel, in Europe, Under god, the Morningstar.
So does THIS sound familiar when “A miracle happens!” One Tuesday in 1979 all soldiers put down their guns in unison, like Syria last year, and installed the IRGC who drink champers and bank cash in Paris and London! All the same people who were the Muslim Brotherhood from MI6 in 1939!
Yeah no. They just took what was working so well and secretly, seamlessly here in the ‘States, and installed it in Iran. Their “Secret Guard” corps was “Totally subject to” the Mullahs and Parliament, and just like J Edgar wasn’t wiretappin’ no one at all nor grabbin’ money out of the Iranian budget for secret projects and houses in Monaco or nothin’. Suuuuuure.“• A Crazy Lefty Lady Learns What Kamala and Hillary Said About Iran (Green)
Gotcha things are stupid. No one “Panicked”. No one was “Destroyed”. This did not “change everything”. The Left is incapable of processing hypocrisy, this is true, but they are only followed in that talent by the Right. Here’s my point: Trump is doing what DEMOCRATS wanted. What Republicans said they wanted. What Europe passed laws requiring (embargoing Iranian oil). But the minute Trump does it, they want the #Opposite all a’sudden. He’s doing what YOUUUUUU wanted and asked for, demanded, begged. Like bombing Israel flat.
Why? Because he does it good and hard. We want you to “Signal” not do it for real! This ruins everything! They want it FAKE. With pretty words to feel good about. Instead, Trump sends 21 Tomahawk missiles to Syria and blows up MOSSAD’s chemical base there. Ooops. No wonder they don’t like it. And what are they supposed to say? “Don’t hit Isis, our Mossad proxy”? Same here. They want Iran WORKING. We want to SIGNAL, not fix. They want it ongoing, pouring off cash, not over and done with.
So they all want a VIETNAM FOUGHT AND NEVER WON. We are supposed to LOSE. That’s what everyone is mad about. Why aren’t you LOSING? They’re happy to have the war, never cared about Iran before, only now.
Perhaps monster truck videos and articles on how to choose the best toothpaste would be more helpful.
As it stands, this rogues’ gallery of narcissistic sociopaths is an insult to the electrons that project them.
Let’s get started:
RIM. The Zionist have achieved none of their stated objectives per the attack on Iran. That’s not a win.
@DrD
You’re looking at too narrow a scope:
The width of my scope includes everything inside the orbit of the moon. I see a shrinking Empire that is shrinking faster and faster as it doubles down on all previous down-doublings. Every time America doubles the bet it shrinks by half. Run the numbers for yourself. Do you see us thriving or struggling? Do you see America’s competitors, adversaries and former vassals becoming more timid, subservient, and aligned to America’s “needs”, or are they increasingly disgagreeable, defiant and bold?
The Empire fails to notice (as Empires tend to do) that the evils which it committed to become an Empire in the first place (colonialist theft, murder and domination) are the same evil that now accelerate demise. Ah, well. Pretend to be surprised by the inevitable.
what damage did America take IN AMERICA?
Are you kidding me? Are you brave and foolish enough to have walked around in an American city in the past couple of decades? Or driven through the ghost towns of the American “Heartland” where thrift stores, empty storefronts, dilapidated churches and meth labs exist in roughly equal proportion?
Again, we used 10% of our forces in the war so far. So let’s say they damaged ALL that, PLUS some bases and radars we’re not counting. So? Do you see the problem? IF ALL America was ONLY the assets in the Middle East, then yeah, we got pounded. But we’re barely there. 99% of America is in Cleveland and Kansas City, NOT at a 300 man base in the Iraqi desert
It’s called a “War of Attrition”, and we are losing so fast that in the span of a single generation we can all see (those who care to look, at least) that the big white City on the Hill is now a slum on the mud flats.
I dunno, maybe you’re right. Maybe doubling down yet again is the best course of action after all. Speed things up. Get it over with faster. If pretending to be the good guys gets that done, then have at it. There’s a clearance sale on white hats down at the Dollar General, if you’ve got the balls and the fire-power to drive into that part of town.
allow the baldheaded old cracker to condense D’s 3534 unit mental diarrhea of the morning.
“I’m Right, I told you so.
“I told you yesterday, I’m telling you today and I will tell you again tomorrow”.““If the President is going to get himself out of this”
Out of what? Out of making the U.S. filthy rich in oil and food?”
the person who penned that is one depraved son of a bitchWhat does the United States need that requires the death of even one child?
“Absolutely nothin’
Say it again, y’all”
https://genius.com/Edwin-starr-war-lyrics
(War) It ain’t nothing but a heartbreaker
(War) It’s got one friend, that’s the undertaker, aww!The most blessed nation
The most blessed citizens
no more than “po white trash”I got the bourgeois blues – Ledbetter
please forgive my emotional outbursts of the last few days
i will sit down and STFU …..for a whileFilthy rich,
Adelson’s bitch.
America’s great,
‘Cept for the hate.
Ain’t my war,
Just keepin’ score.
Schoolkids splattered,
That never mattered.
401k makin’ me rich,
I’m in love with adelson’s bitch.@TDK: I worked on wiggling my ears around the summer of 1970. Wiggling both ears is easy. Wiggling one ear at a time takes more concentration and training.
It’s not very useful in the final analysis, and will not seecure you a mate…
@TBOC:You Good, Man.
😉What will the winners do with the losers of the War of Attritions?
Same as before.
( Gaza, Haiti, poverty, suffering, slavery, )“Attrition”
the process of reducing something’s strength or effectiveness through sustained attack or pressure————-
What’s Going On https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/whats-going-on
Paul Craig Roberts, Does Iran Comprehend Who Iran is Negotiating with and about what?
Iran thinks Iran is negotiating with Trump about restrictions being imposed on Iran’s rights under the non-proliferation treaty. Iran is totally incorrect. This is a proxy issue. Iran’s real issue is with Israel, and it is about Iran’s right to exist. The Zionist agenda of Greater Israel, the foreign policy of the Netanyahu Israeli Government, requires the elimination of Iran as an organized sovereign state. Why does the Iranian government think that Iran’s continued existence is something they want to negotiate?
After the Muslim world watched Washington destroy three of the “seven countries in five years” for Israel, why cannot the Iranian government comprehend that Iran is the fourth to be destroyed, with Turkey, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia waiting their turn.
Iran cannot gain anything from negotiations. Iran can only fight for its life. If the Iranian government is incapable of comprehending this basic fact, “Turkey will be next Iran” as former Israeli prime minister Bennet said last February at a conference of Jewish organizations in the US. https://paulcraigroberts.org/does-iran-comprehend-who-iran-is-negotiating-with-and-about-what/Iranian leadership is more divided than usual. Unpopular IRGC takes the reins: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard sidelines president as military grip expands
President Pezeshkian reportedly unable to contact Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei as a ‘military council’ controls access https://www.foxnews.com/world/irans-revolutionary-guard-sidelines-president-military-grip-expandsThat’s really far away. US Forces Board Iran-Linked Tanker in the Indian Ocean
The seizure comes two days after the US attacked and boarded an Iranian ship in the Gulf of Oman https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/21/us-forces-board-iran-linked-tanker-in-the-indian-ocean/ Did Trump want to use nuclear codes in Iran? Did Dan Caine stop him? Ex-CIA analyst’s claim fact checked
Larry Johnson claims Donald Trump sought to use nuclear codes in Iran but Gen Dan Caine stopped it; no evidence backs a Saturday Pentagon emergency meeting. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/did-trump-want-to-use-nuclear-codes-in-iran-did-dan-caine-stop-him-ex-cia-analysts-claim-fact-checked-101776723007694.htmlEchoed, but not confirmed: So General Caine cited Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice on Saturday night, as he refused Trumps order to execute a nuclear strike on Iran. Trump is insane. He is a real threat to the world. It’s frightening that no one in the United States moves to remove this man. https://x.com/KerryBurgess/status/2046313597765296306
Tit-For-Tat Assaults On Shipping Widen: US Intercepts 3 More ‘Illicit’ Tankers In Asian Waters, Iran Seizes Additional 2 In Hormuz
At least two fully laden Iranian tankers slip past US naval blockade, amid reports of more going dark, BBG reports, but Pentagon denies.
Reports of three more Iranian tankers being seized by US in Asian waters. Iran in turn seizes 2 more ships in Hormuz, citing “dangerous navigation”.
Trump extends ceasefire by 3-5 days, per White House statement to Fox. Third US carrier precisely 3-5 day away from Mideast waters: Fox
IRGC seized the MSC Francesca and a Greek-owned ship named Euphoria, which had been attempting to transit the Hormuz chokepoint earlier today. Within hours, a third ship comes under fire by the IRGC.
Senior Iranian adviser says the US naval blockade is “no different than bombing” and must be met “with a military response”. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-seizes-two-ships-hormuz-chokepoint-tehran-received-some-signs-us-ready-end Trump Orders Navy ‘Shoot & Kill’ Iranian Boats Laying Mines, As US Intercepts Tankers From Hormuz To Indian Ocean
Iranian sources to Chinese state media says ‘breakthrough’ toward restarting US talks again could come ‘tonight or tomorrow’.
Media sources confirm based on prior Trump post that US has extended the ceasefire indefinitely until ‘unified proposal’ can be brought forward by Tehran. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-intercepts-iranian-tankers-tehran-keeps-hormuz-chokepoint-shut Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-04-22
Iran rejects ceasefire extension, IRGC fires on ship in Strait of Hormuz. Iran refused to attend Pakistan talks, Trump extended ceasefire “indefinitely” while maintaining the naval blockade. Hours later, IRGC boats opened fire on a container ship in the Strait. Iran’s FM Araghchi called the blockade “an act of war and thus a violation of the ceasefire”. Iran says it did not request any extension. Multiple container ships attempting to transit the Strait were stopped by IRGC… Iran’s position: no talks while blockade continues …
..US missile stocks depleted to ~50%, creating “window of vulnerability” in Pacific. Per CNN reporting, roughly half of key THAAD, Patriot, and precision-strike munitions have been expended in seven weeks of the Iran war. Replenishment could take 1-4 years…
..Iran’s oil wells face permanent damage by April 26. Per FDD analysis cited by multiple accounts, Iran has ~20M barrels spare onshore storage against 1.5M bbl/day surplus. Storage fills ~13 days from April 13 blockade start…
..Touska Seizure & China Tensions – USS Spruance fired into the engine room of Iranian-flagged container ship Touska, then Marines boarded
Trump on CNBC: ship was carrying a “gift from China” that “wasn’t very nice” – Ship originated from Zhuhai’s Gaolan port, identified by WaPo as a loading point for sodium perchlorate (missile propellant precursor)
Separately, a second tanker (M/T Tifani) boarded in Indo-Pacific – first interdiction outside Hormuz theatre [Chinese tanker]
Trump effectively admitted his “understanding” with Xi is broken…
..EU quietly removed ban on transporting Russian oil from its latest sanctions package …
..Pentagon Nuclear Official Caught on Camera, Escorted Out
James O’Keefe published undercover video of Andrew Hugg, Branch Chief of Nuclear and Chemical Surety, casually revealing that the US plans to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader, US strikes killed children in Iran, and the US still possesses nerve agents… Hugg was escorted out of the Pentagon and placed on administrative leave within ~60 minutes…
US National Debt Hits $39 Trillion – Latest trillion added in 145 days – $6.9B every day, $79,821 every second – Interest costs exceed $1T annually https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-04-22The war with Iran has devastated the US missile arsenal, and it will take up to five years to restore it. https://en.topwar.ru/281416-vojna-s-iranom-opustoshila-raketnye-arsenaly-ssha-vosstanavlivat-do-pjati-let.html
Simplicius, Left With Nothing But Gimmicks, Trump Gets Bluff Called Again By Confident Iran
The disorganized ‘dance’ this time was an even bigger fiasco than usual—Trump had claimed his “negotiators” were traveling to Islamabad for talks with Iran, while Iran denied even going there. Then news broke that Rubio and co. in fact stayed home and Iran was right: it had never agreed to any talks because its demands have not yet been met—primarily lifting the blockade.
Trump then expectorated an even more unhinged series of ravings, which made little sense. After threatening to blow up the country and kill all Iran’s leaders, Trump suddenly “extended the ceasefire indefinitely”, despite Iran stating they did not even request such an extension and are ready for full resumption of hostilities…
..Many still believe the US is gearing up for a major escalation, but Trump knows he has little leverage and more aimless bombing of an increasingly entrenched IRGC structure is not going to accomplish anything. Hitting power plants will only invite a likewise response onto a Gulf region facing crippling economic damage. News continues to pour out that UAE in particular has been hard hit, with its economy allegedly nearing the brink, which is why it’s now begging the US for a lifeline...
..Not only are major strains growing between US and its Gulf allies—most notably now UAE—but oil prices may continue to rise with many experts predicting global economic shocks that will filter down to the US and even more of its allies. On top of which, each day that US squats on the Strait while doing effectively nothing leads to major political and credibility loss for Trump, who is being eaten alive by the press, and whose constituents are growing increasingly tired of his aimless political charades and impotent military adventures.
There’s an argument to be made that Iran can in fact outlast such a blockade while it is the US that will take the more lasting damage overall. That’s not even to mention the monetary costs of imposing the blockade with the current naval forces active in the region...
..Directly from the CNN article: The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in the next few years, according to experts and three people familiar with recent internal Defense Department stockpile assessments...
..In only a couple short weeks the US fired thousands of its rarest and most valuable munitions, which are only produced at a trickle of a few dozen per year each. This is why, as we had just written about in the last piece, the Pentagon is apparently in talks with major US automakers like Ford, GM, Oshkosh, etc., about converting their production lines into munitions production... At a production rate of only a few dozen per year, the US simply cannot afford to prolong the conflict much longer, lest it run its magazines completely dry and becomes exposed for all time. This is why we can only assume that Trump’s gasbag lecturing is nothing but inert bluffery meant to frighten an increasingly unvexed Iran into making concessions. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/left-with-nothing-but-gimmicks-trump “People are starting to panic”: the consequences of Iran’s attack on US radars
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system is a crucial element of the US missile defense system, responsible for intercepting targets at the boundary between the atmosphere and space (at altitudes of up to 150 km). Its “eyes” are the AN/TPY-2 radars, which were among the primary targets of the Iranian strikes in March 2026. These radars were destroyed in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Tom Karako, director of the Missile Defense Project at the CSIS think tank, noted this in an interview. https://en.topwar.ru/281404-ljudi-nachinajut-panikovat-posledstvija-porazhenija-amerikanskih-radarov-iranom.html The US has admitted its inability to destroy Iran’s “mosquito fleet” in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to an analysis in The New York Times, the American coalition has so far failed to neutralize the so-called Iranian “mosquito flotilla,” which has become the main threat to the tanker fleet. This fleet consists of thousands of high-speed boats operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. These stealthy vessels can reach speeds of up to 185 kilometers per hour, making them extremely difficult targets for even the most sophisticated targeting systems. Iranian tactics rely on lightning-fast attacks, after which groups of boats instantly disperse and disappear. https://avia-pro.net/news/ssha-priznali-nesposobnost-unichtozhit-iranskiy-moskitnyy-flot-v-ormuzskom-proliveUS Estimates Iran Has 70% of Pre-War Missile Stockpile, 60% of Launchers https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/20/us-estimates-iran-has-70-of-pre-war-missile-stockpile-60-of-launchers/
Schrödinger’s Strait – Over the weekend, the Strait of Hormuz became Schrödinger’s Strait: open and closed at the same time, depending on which headline you were reading…
..Reflexivity With Warships – What Trump appears to be doing here—whether consciously or not—is something that looks a lot like George Soros’s principle of reflexivity. Soros’s basic idea was that markets don’t just passively reflect reality; they can also change it. Prices move, expectations shift, financing conditions tighten or loosen, and those moves feed back into the real economy and even into political decisions.
That’s especially relevant in a war centered on oil flows, shipping lanes, and financial pressure.,,
..Iran’s Lever – Iran’s preferred lever has been obvious for weeks: threaten the Strait of Hormuz, raise oil prices, spook global markets, and put pressure on Washington through the U.S. economy... higher gasoline prices are one of the fastest ways to create political pain for an American president...
..Trump’s Lever – Trump’s pressure campaign has been different. Much more of it has been in the physical world.
First, there’s the blockade itself. It’s not a general closure of the Strait. It’s a targeted effort to stop Iranian oil sales, block Iranian maritime commerce, and deny Tehran both export earnings and imports flowing through the Gulf…
..Second, there’s the pressure that builds as time passes. A blockade doesn’t just reduce cash inflow. It also creates storage problems for a producer… As time passes, Tehran has to think not just about lost revenue, but about storage, field management, and what happens if production has to be curtailed under pressure.
The Market As Battlefield… If Iran can push oil high enough, long enough, it can create pressure on Trump through markets and through consumer prices. But if Trump can keep oil from rising too much—through his own rhetoric, through repeated hints of imminent talks, through confidence that the conflict will end soon—then he can blunt Iran’s pressure on the U.S. economy while continuing to squeeze Iran physically through the blockade.
In other words, the market itself becomes part of the battlefield.
If crude stays lower than Tehran wants, Trump buys time. Lower oil prices mean less pressure from American drivers, less political pressure on the White House, and more room to keep the blockade in place. If crude spikes, the reverse happens: Tehran’s leverage rises, not because it has sunk the U.S. Navy, but because it has raised the domestic economic cost of continuing the campaign. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-04-19/schrodingers-straitWSJ Report: Up to Half of Nearly 1,000 Drone Attacks on Saudi Arabia Launched from Iraq by Iran-Backed Militias https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/WSJ-Report-Up-to-Half-of-Nearly-1000-Drone-Attacks-on-Saudi-Arabia-Launched-from-Iraq-by-Iran-Backed-Militias/
Report: US Increasing the Pressure on Iraq to Reduce Ties With Iran – The US has suspended cooperation and funding for Iraq’s security forces https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/21/report-us-increasing-the-pressure-on-iraq-to-reduce-ties-with-iran/
US Blocks Regular $500 Million Cash Pallets Flown To Iraq, Over Pro-Iran Militias https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-blocks-regular-500-million-cash-pallets-flown-iraq-over-pro-iran-militias
BREAKING: Pentagon Nuclear Chief LEAKS Critical Information To Stranger, Admits U.S. Nerve Agent Exposure, U.S. Strike Killed Children In Iran https://okeefemediagroup.com/pentagon-nuclear-chief-leak/
Michigan Dems Came Down Hard On Student Protests Against the Gaza Genocide. It Just Blew Up in Their Face.
Two upset primary at the Michigan Democratic nominating convention are material and symbolic victories for pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Michigan. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/michigan-democrats-student-protesters-palestine-israel-electionsCatholics finally splitting with Trump over Iran war and Israel https://israelpalestinenews.org/catholic-split/
Hamas: Israel continues “engineered starvation” in Gaza through Rafah crossing closure https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/04/20/361643/
Water crisis in Gaza worsens as per capita supply falls to critical levels https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/04/21/361682/
Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says – Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/israeli-soldiers-using-sexual-assault-to-force-palestinians-out-of-west-bank-report-says
Israeli Attacks Kill More Palestinians in Gaza as Hamas Clashes With Israeli-Backed Militias – A pregnant woman was killed by Israeli gunfire in the al-Mawasi tent camp in southern Gaza https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/20/israeli-attacks-kill-more-palestinians-in-gaza-as-hamas-clashes-with-israeli-backed-militias/
Israel is (still) killing aid workers in Gaza https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-blockade-aid/
Jewish settlers raze school, seize homes after displacing Palestinian families https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/04/21/361691/
As barbed wire blocks kids from class, Palestinians stage ‘Freedom School’ – Children from Umm al-Khair in the occupied West Bank protest after settlers erect a fence blocking access to school. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/as-barbed-wire-blocks-kids-from-class-palestinians-stage-freedom-school
Child killed on way to school after being run over by Israeli colonist https://english-wafa-ps.translate.goog/Pages/Details/169660?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Israeli Soldier Says an IDF Commander Spat on the Bodies of Three Children He Killed in Gaza – The soldier’s story was included in a Haaretz report about ‘moral injuries’ that IDF soldiers are dealing with https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/21/israeli-soldier-says-an-idf-commander-spat-on-the-bodies-of-three-children-he-killed-in-gaza/
5 times Israelis desecrated Christian sites in the past two years https://israelpalestinenews.org/5-times-israelis-desecrated-christian-sites-in-the-past-two-years/
Israeli Soldiers In Lebanon Who Sledgehammered Statue Of Jesus Arrested As Bibi Does Damage Control https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israeli-soldiers-lebanon-who-sledgehammered-statue-jesus-arrested-bibi-does-damage
Israel Says Hezbollah Fired Rockets, Breaching Lebanon Ceasefire https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-says-hezbollah-fired-rockets-breaching-lebanon-ceasefire
Embassy Tells Americans Still In Lebanon Depart Now While Flights Available As Ceasefire Collapsing https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/embassy-tells-americans-still-lebanon-depart-now-while-flights-available-ceasefire
Lebanon: death toll rises to 2,387, more than 117,000 displaced in shelter centers https://english-wafa-ps.translate.goog/Pages/Details/169639?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday the country needed 500 million euros to address the war’s humanitarian fallout, as a fragile 10-day ceasefire holds between Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah. https://www.spacewar.com/afp/260421183642.f3vyi24f.html
Displaced Lebanese Again Warned Not to Return to Israeli-Occupied South – Israeli destruction of towns and villages continue https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/20/displaced-lebanese-again-warned-not-to-return-to-israeli-occupied-south/
Hezbollah said it launched an attack on northern Israel on Tuesday in retaliation for what it said were Israeli violations of a 10-day ceasefire, the first such claim since the truce began. https://www.spacewar.com/afp/260421192436.djdzzo5o.html
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said Monday that his group would work to break the “Yellow Line” that Israel established in southern Lebanon, adding that no one could disarm the Iran-backed group. https://www.spacewar.com/afp/260420160115.dfuy5veu.html
Israel’s Yellow Line Claims Valuable Off-Shore Lebanese Gas Field – Buffer zone seemingly precludes Lebanese development of Qana field https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/21/israels-yellow-line-claims-valuable-off-shore-lebanese-gas-field/
‘Eliminating Energy Blockade Top Priority’ As Cuba Confirms Direct Talks With US https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eliminating-energy-blockade-top-priority-cuba-confirms-direct-talks-us
State Department, Cuban Regime Confirm ‘Secret’ Talks in Havana https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/04/20/state-department-cuban-regime-confirm-secret-talks-in-havana-n4951999
Lugansk People’s Republic, LPR fully liberated, Kiev tries to conceal failure — statements by Russia’s military chief
In March-April, Russian troops liberated 34 settlements and about 700 square kilometers of territory in the special military operation area https://tass.com/defense/2120089 Alex Krainer explains that the Ukrainian coup-government really needed the 80% of national assets that were in the Donbass, or the bankers would walk away.
Kiev’s 2014 anti-terror operation was a bankers’ war
The war, which left 14,000 casualties, was instigated by IMF’s “key shareholders,” and discussed by Arianne de Rothschild and Jeffrey Epstein https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/kievs-2014-anti-terror-operation Is Lithuania attacking Russia? Ukrainian UAV crews in Lithuania may threaten Russia — security officials
The Lithuanian army earlier said that, as part of cooperation with the Ukrainian army, they were receiving “combat experience” training from the Ukrainian troops https://tass.com/defense/2120545Russia Threatens Attacks on European Drone Factories as Intensified UAV Strikes From Ukraine Cause Devastation https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russia-warns-attacks-european-drone-factories#google_vignette
Putin spoke about the process of creating a security zone on the border with Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian Armed Forces are gradually establishing a security zone on the border with Ukraine. He stated that this zone will remain in place until the threat to Russia’s border regions is “eliminated.” https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/8606385?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wappBelgian Defence Chief Warns Europe Must Urgently Militarise Against Russia as Ukraine ‘Buys Time’ https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/belgian-defence-chief-urgently-militarise
Return for the meat-grinder: Zelensky Demands Ukrainian Men Abroad Return to Fight His War https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/zelensky-demands-ukrainian-men-abroad-return-to-fight-his-war/
Charles, who commanded some My Lai vets in Vietnam, sent this history of that event, and how the US military works: Mỹ Lai massacre https://cherrieswriter.com/2023/05/06/my-lai-massacre/
This is long and detailed. It is the global control structure. You can start at “The Circuit”, halfway down: Escape Key, The Full Technical Stack https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-full-stack
AI Lab Leak: Anthropic’s ‘Too Dangerous To Release’ AI Model Was Accessed By Discord Group On Day One https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/anthropics-too-dangerous-release-ai-model-was-accessed-discord-group-day-one
AI or humans; what’ll it be? Texas Electricity Demand Could Quadruple Due To Soaring Data Center Demand: ERCOT https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/texas-electricity-demand-could-quadruple-due-soaring-data-center-demand-ercot
DOJ Prepares Case Over Egg Prices That Didn’t Add Up
Less than a month after Farm Action called for an investigation, the DOJ opened one. Now it appears headed to court. https://angelasuehuffman.substack.com/p/doj-prepares-case-over-egg-pricesDr. Chatbot: Half of AI Health Answers Are Wrong Even Though They Sound Convincing – New Study https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/04/half-of-ai-health-answers-are-wrong-even-though-they-sound-convincing-new-study.html
Dr. Marik explains Non-alcoholic fatty-liver: NASH: A Metabolic Disease Hiding in Plain Sight – The Misunderstood Liver Disease
For decades, liver disease was viewed through a narrow lens—alcohol, viruses, toxins. If a patient did not drink excessively and tested negative for hepatitis, their liver was assumed to be safe.
That assumption is now dangerously outdated.
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)—the progressive and inflammatory form of fatty liver disease—is not rare, not benign, and not incidental. It is the hepatic manifestation of a systemic metabolic crisis. And like coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension, it is fundamentally driven by insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction, not by isolated organ pathology.
NASH is not a liver disease. It is a metabolic disease that happens to involve the liver. https://substack.com/home/post/p-193908117 Meryl Nass MD, Amongst all the craziness, a bit of good news
The USG and telecommunications companies did not obtain the right to put their towers up wherever they wanted today. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/amongst-all-the-craziness-a-bit-ofJohn Klar Esq. Why We Must Listen to the Vaccine Injured https://www.themahareport.com/p/why-we-must-listen-to-the-vaccine
A Reckoning Is Underway at the FDA
For months, a quiet battle has been unfolding inside the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
It began with an analysis of child deaths after Covid vaccination, followed by strategic leaks to major media outlets, and has now erupted into the open with a memo from the regulator’s own vaccine chief.
In September, it was reported that FDA officials had privately investigated 25 paediatric deaths following Covid vaccination — the first systematic review of such cases since the rollout began.
The findings were meant to be presented to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). But the presentation never came. The meeting passed without a word. Something had happened behind closed doors. Now we know what. https://brownstone.org/articles/a-reckoning-is-underway-at-the-fda/ U.S. MILITARY ENDS 72-YEAR MANDATORY FLU SHOT POLICY – On the heels of forcing cardiotoxic gene-transfer injections on the entire military, the Pentagon now moves to save face. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/us-military-ends-72-year-mandatory
Pot Stocks Soar As DoJ Reclassifies Medical Marijuana As Less Dangerous Drug https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/pot-stocks-soar-doj-reclassifies-medical-marijuana-less-dangerous-drug
Good questions; no answers: The 12 Missing or Dead Scientists Point to the Great Disclosure Deception
One does not have to be a Bible-believing Christian or a conspiracy theorist to appreciate the possible scenarios, but it helps. https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/the-12-missing-or-dead-scientists 1700 BC in the Jordan Valley: clay glassified and microdiamonds formed by intense heat and pressure: The First Nuclear War — And the Archaeological Evidence Nobody Will Discuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYe4tZ4_83c
RETRACTED ARTICLE: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea
We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea. The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide detonated with ~ 1000× more energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. A city-wide ~ 1.5-m-thick carbon-and-ash-rich destruction layer contains peak concentrations of shocked quartz (~ 5–10 GPa); melted pottery and mudbricks; diamond-like carbon. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3#:~:text=Abstract,a%20%3E%2025%2Dkm%20radius.ISRAEL’s casualties have hit Historic Levels: For the First Time the IDF lost 47 soldiers in 5 hours
Do you remember “embedded journalist”?
It was before everyone had smart phones.
It was controlled news.The US has 12 aircraft carriers.
5 of these are in maintenance.
Only 3 are currently deployed, all in the Middle East area.
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